Has Prog achieved 'inmortality'?

Prog has entered some phase, like many other genres, where it has its distinct group of followers.

In my view, prog as we know it - i.e. a genre directly inspired by the great bands and artists of the late Sixties/early Seventies - will probably end when its original supporters die off. On the other hand, progressive music (rock and otherwise) is here to stay, even though it may remain a niche genre. The best music released in the past few years has only a tenuous link with the Seventies template, but clearly pushes the genre forward in a variety of ways.

Thanks for the responses. Maybe it's true that the internet is keeping alive every genre, however small its community of followers is they can get together (virtually I mean) and keep their own musical micro-universe alive. Perhaps I am biased into thinking this about Prog because it's the only one I follow up .

The Prog is manifest destiny.
The Might is Right.
They will be forced to GET DOWN ONNIT whether they want to or not.
Hail the Power and the Glory!



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No honestly, in my neck of the woods -Leutonia Proper- I get the feeling everyone hates prog - no, that is not correct. No one is AWARE of prog. (It was always very difficult - for instance, for myself to find Canadian lp trade contacts. They all came from US or Europe.


Things like the currrent Italian prog scene are blooming like crazy - enough to rival the 70s - but that doesnt mean the overall genre itself is acheiving inmortality. It is nowhere near.

And Im glad.
When prog gets too big, it just means more noobs,more sharn-progs and one or two new pwog mastermen on the scene.

We current handful of prog mastermen need no competition. More prog mastermen on the face of the earth dilutes the honour.

You must regale me with the proper dignities and compete amongst yourselves to flatter Masterman Wallace. But when a new masterman comes on the scene - due to expansion of genre appreciation - that just dilutes the praise coming my way.

So then Wallace is content the "phenomenon" remains as it is today - a very small part of the total musical picture.


Pwog INmortality?
No thanks, sir.

Svetonio wrote: Toaster Mantis wrote: Well, most fans of modern electronic music I've met find Schulze and TD either too technologically primitive or too close to Krautrock and modern classical to be "real electronic music". The latter basically starts with Kraftwerk. I respect your opinion, but in my opinion the Berlin School of electronic music is *in* again, and there's more and more Neo Berlin School artists and albums. For example, I find today this Neo Berlin School masterpiece that is released a three weeks ago by Spanish artist Javi Cánovas.

I can only speak from my own personal experience, in which people into Berlin School electronic music and similar styles usually tend to be more into classic psychedelic rock with their listening background informed by that genre.

Music needs to be performed by either people, animals or nature.  Spending all day copy and pasting sound files on a computer from a folder filled with sound files is not music.  It's digital collage.  If you like playing video games that simulate car chases or war scenes... good for you.. but it's not driving a car or flying a medivac helicopter into a hot zone in Vietnam.  It's simulation.  Listening to computer electronica is like having sex based upon computer images.  You do that.. not me.  I prefer the real thing.  You like electronica and Prog? Same as you liking internet porn and real sex , but don't confuse the two.  Electronica is NOT music.  It digital collage of sound files.  It's ok to like it.. but you're being dumbed down by non musicians brainwashing you into thinking it's music.  It's not.
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Well, i guess the minute someone plugs in their guitar and amplifies it it is no longer music. Who do you think programs the computers and assembles the collages? Do the computers actually assemble the sounds randomly or is there a human involved? Just admit it that you don't like an entire genre based on your prejudice and leave it at that. But to come up with ridiculous blanket statements like this is laughable. On the contrary to being dumbed down i find certain electronica artists hightly progressive with incredibly original ideas but maybe i've been brainwashed into thinking so while i'm watching internet porn! Ha ha ha

I've only discovered some of those 70s artists in the last 5 years (the less popular ones) and i'm blown away. Good music is timeless and will be around 200 years from now and beyond just like Mozart, Beethoven and the Beatles. Even the smaller acts seem to get cult audiences.

To really answer this question, one has to look outside of a genre's history and the current trends of other musical genres to gauge the 'mortality' of those particular genres. Not easy when you're whole world is almost completely dependent or focused on prog.

Edited by SteveG - November 24 2014 at 19:25

Nogbad_The_Bad wrote: After a nuclear holocaust the only thing left will be cockroaches and capes. In 40 years no-one will remember it

Permy wrote: ..... ....... Things like the currrent Italian prog scene are blooming like crazy - enough to rival the 70s - ....